Shifting it up a bit this year. The books are in the order I read them; the rest are in alphabetical order. The Books Read list contains a whole lot of very short books; if you discount those, I finished 20 normal-length books this year.
Books Read in 2025:
- Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
- Journal by Joyce Atkinson and Kristine Atkinson
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- Breasts by Florence Williams
- The Explainer by Slate Magazine
- So You Wanna Run a Country? by Kevin Holohan
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- Grunt by Mary Roach
- Pinball Wizards by Adam Ruben
- Manhunt by James L. Swanson
- Bone Dance by Emma Bull
- The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater by Mike Thomas
- Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi
- Creme de la Femme edited by Anne Safran Dalin
- How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
- Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- The Gifts of Marriage by Helen Exley
- First Comes Love by Emily Thornton Calvo
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- From the Very Big Desk Of… by Charles Barsotti
- Literary Starbucks by Jill Poskanzer
- Fingerpori from Finland by Pertti Jarla
- Heart and Brain by Nick Seluk
- Gut Instincts by Nick Seluk
- Body Language by Nick Seluk
- The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat
- Off the Road by Elisha Cooper
- The History Of The World Through Twitter by Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn
- Shrinklits by Maurice Sagoff
- Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O’Connor
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Audiobooks Listened to in 2025:
- System Failure by Joe Zeija
- Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
- Tricked by Kevin Hearne
- What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Trapped by Kevin Hearne
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
- The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
- The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
- The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
- This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
- Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
- Bourdain by Laurie Woolever
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
- Go Ask Ali by Ali Wentworth
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
- The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone
- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
- Winter by Marissa Meyer
- The Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman
- The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
- Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
- How to Think by Alan Jacobs
- The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
- The World She Edited by Amy Reading
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005
But wait, there’s more!
Video Games Played in 2025:
- Core Keeper
- Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
- Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
- Lego: The Hobbit
- Liminal Space
- Outer Worlds
- Return to Monkey Island
- Smite
- Smite 2
- Stardew Valley
- The Stanley Parable
- World of Warcraft
Movies Watched in 2025:
- Argylle
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Captain America: Brave New World
- Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Happy Gilmore
- Jurassic World
- Kraven the Hunter
- M3gan
- M3gan 2.0
- Pixels
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Superman (2025)
- The Beekeeper
- The Gorge
- The Minecraft Movie
- The Running Man (2025)
- Thunderbolts
- Trap
- Wake Up Dead Man
TV Shows Watched in 2025:
- DuckTales (2017)
- Game Changer
- Gastronauts
- Ghosts (US)
- Make Some Noise
- Murderbot
- Nyaight of the Living Cat
- Peacemaker
- Pluribus
- Resident Alien
- Saturday Night Live
- Schmigadoon
- Severance
- South Park
- Star Trek Lower Decks
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
- Ted Lasso
- What We Do in the Shadows
Honorable Mentions from YouTube*:
- Game Grumps
- Last Week Tonight
- Late Night with Seth Meyers
- Pitch Meeting
- Screen Junkies: Honest Trailers
- The Daily Show
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- This Aged Great
- Your Daily Dose of Internet
- Ze Frank: True Facts
*I watch a lot of the videos from these channels but they don’t really count the same way as regular shows. The TV shows listed here are ones I only watch specific clips of, not whole episodes. For example, I watch Stephen Colbert’s monologues and Meanwhile and a couple other things, but rarely the interviews.
Looking at this list, even considering it’s over the course of an entire year, you’d think I never got up off my butt. And, well, you might have a point. Shut up.
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